HALFWAY THROUGH 2021!?
Hey… Lookin’ good right? Of course, this is only half the story. I’ve received the funds for the successful Kickstarter campaign (thank you everyone!), but the expenses haven’t hit yet. My preferred printer, Page by Page Copies, is a one man operation and the one man, Brian Dalton, had some fairly significant medical issues pop up. Click through on the link above for more info and updates on that: long story short, he’s back up to eight hours of work a day. When Brian catches up on back log, my printing and shipping expenses will hit and sudden my numbers will be back down to normal “Nix Levels.” Read that as hovering outta the blue and just slightly into the black. It ain’t easy being esoteric.
I have a little free time coming up the next couple of weeks that I plan on using to do some revenue boosting eBay and writing work. So I guess its possible that I’ll keep this margin… But you know, that’d be counting chickens before they hatch and all. (Also, I got eggs right now and I do love me some eggs!
General State of Nix Comics ‘n Me
As you might guess by the admittedly clumsy combination of June and July into one “monthly” update… Things were busy! As many of you know, I’ve returned to school to complete a BA in nonprofit management with the goal of finding a way to make a living and support, grow and invigorate the arts community that has meant so much to me. (That’s both the comics people and music people, FYI. Same community in my mind.) I’m on the home stretch of that effort and this summer I had to take a bunch of accelerated courses including the science reqs that OSU wouldn’t let me wheedle out of. I knew it would time consuming, but didn’t realize how much so. It was a lot of reading, writing and test taking. Anyways… The summer semester just ended, I got three As and am ready for what’s next!
I listened to 120 records in June and only 73 in July. That makes for 778 for the year.
June
| 6/1/21 | Ramones | Animal Boy | 12″ | LP |
| 6/1/21 | Dirtbombs | Utraglide in Black | 12″ | LP |
| 6/2/21 | Rolling Stones | Hot Rocks | 2×12″ | LP |
| 6/3/21 | Velvet Underground | Loaded | 12″ | LP |
| 6/3/21 | Andre Williams and Green Hornet | Holland Shuffle: Live At The World Famous Vera Club | 12″ | LP |
| 6/4/21 | Elvis Costello | Almost Blue | 12″ | LP |
| 6/4/21 | Prisoners | Taste of the Pink | 12″ | LP |
| 6/5/21 | The Cuts | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/5/21 | Southern Culture on the Skids | Lacquered Up and Liquored Down | 12″ | LP |
| 6/5/21 | Cramps | A Date With Elvis | 12″ | LP |
| 6/5/21 | Mummies | Never Been Caught | 12″ | LP |
| 6/5/21 | Conquerors | Turn On, Tune Out, Drop Dead | 10″ | EP |
| 6/6/21 | Sons of Hercules | Get Lost | 12″ | LP |
| 6/6/21 | Ding Dongs | Ding Dong Party | 12″ | LP |
| 6/6/21 | Impala | Square Jungle | 12″ | LP |
| 6/7/21 | Exploding Hearts | Guitar Romantic | 12″ | LP |
| 6/7/21 | Suzy Y Los Quatros | Singles | 12″ | LP |
| 6/7/21 | Exploding White Mice | In A Nest of Vipers | 12″ | EP |
| 6/8/21 | Tony Joe White | …Continued | 12″ | LP |
| 6/8/21 | Stooges | Fun House | 12″ | LP |
| 6/8/21 | Speedy West | Guitar Spectacular | 12″ | LP |
| 6/8/21 | Tenpole Tudor | Let The Four Winds Blow | 12″ | LP |
| 6/9/21 | Little Killers | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/9/21 | Lazy Cowgirls | Ragged Soul | 12″ | LP |
| 6/9/21 | Hector’s Pets | Pet-O-Feelia | 12″ | LP |
| 6/10/21 | Lazy Cowgirls | Radio Cowgirl | 12″ | LP |
| 6/11/21 | Johnny Cash | I Walk The Line | 12″ | LP |
| 6/11/21 | Rex Garvin | Emulsified | 7″ | single |
| 6/11/21 | Friggs | Bad Word for a Good Thing | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Friggs | Shake Your Cakes | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Frampton Brothers | Like An Oliver Stone | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Flat Duo Jets | Two Great Guitarists | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Flakes | Bip Bam Boom! | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Flakes | Wanna Meet The Flakes? | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Fantastic DeeJays | Fight Fire | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Famous Monsters | Famous Monsters are Go! | 7″ | EP |
| 6/11/21 | Joe Ely | Texas Special | 7″ | EP |
| 6/11/21 | Emperors | Karate | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | El Vez | El Vez Calling | 7″ | EP |
| 6/11/21 | Los Primos | Twistin’ Con Los Primos | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Nick Lowe | Burning | 7″ | Single |
| 6/11/21 | Nick Lowe | My Heart Hurts | 2×7″ | EP |
| 6/11/21 | Million Sellers | Mighty Good | 7″ | EP |
| 6/11/21 | Dan Melchior | Instant Love | 7″ | Single |
| 6/12/21 | Man or Astroman | Astrolaunch | 7″ | EP |
| 6/12/21 | Nathaniel Mayer | I Don’t Want No Bald Headed Woman Telling me what To Do | 7″ | Single |
| 6/12/21 | Matchbox | Please Don’t Touch | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole | Smitty | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Bobby Marchan | Help Yourself | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Henry Mancini | Experiment In Terror | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Lipstick Pickups | Better Than You | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Roy Loney and the A-Bones | Boy Meets Bones | 7″ | EP |
| 6/13/21 | Nines | Gonna Get A Ring | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Nikki and the Corvettes | Yummy Yummy Yummy | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Mullens | Self Titled | 7″ | EP |
| 6/13/21 | Muffs | Big Mouth | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Mortals | Disintegration | 7″ | Single |
| 6/13/21 | Moto | Midnight In the Guantanomo Room | 7″ | Single |
| 6/14/21 | Porter Waggoner | Sings His Own Songs | 12″ | LP |
| 6/14/21 | Gene Vincent | Rockabilly Fever | 12″ | LP |
| 6/14/21 | Ventures | Walk Don’t Run | 12″ | LP |
| 6/16/21 | Cramps | Bad Music for Bad People | 12″ | LP |
| 6/16/21 | Various Artists | Aquellos Marvalloses: Tribut A Dr. Explosion | 12″ | LP |
| 6/16/21 | Cornelious Brothers and Sister Rose | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/18/21 | Various Artists | Beach Blvd | 12″ | LP |
| 6/18/21 | Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers | Jonathan Sings | 12″ | LP |
| 6/18/21 | A-Bones | LIfe of Riley | 12″ | LP |
| 6/19/21 | Barracudas | Drop out with the Barracudas | 12″ | LP |
| 6/19/21 | GTVs | Sh-Bang | 12″ | LP |
| 6/19/21 | Kinks | Sleepwalker | 12″ | LP |
| 6/19/21 | Etta James | Miss Etta James | 12″ | LP |
| 6/19/21 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Rare Jerry Lee Lewis Vol 2 | 12″ | LP |
| 6/20/21 | Knitters | Poor Little Critter In the Road | 12″ | LP |
| 6/20/21 | Various Artists | Soul Shots Vol. 1 | 12″ | LP |
| 6/20/21 | Pinkz | USA | 7″ | Single |
| 6/20/21 | Primates V | Nova | 7″ | EP |
| 6/20/21 | Graham Parker | Up Escalator | 12″ | LP |
| 6/21/21 | Shangri-Las | Shangri-Las ’65 | 12″ | LP |
| 6/21/21 | Carl Smith and the Tunesmiths | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/22/21 | Untamed Youth | Planet Mace | 12″ | LP |
| 6/22/21 | Shangri-Las | Leader of the Pack | 12″ | LP |
| 6/22/21 | Vulcaneers | Beat me Off Scotty | 12″ | LP |
| 6/22/21 | Gene Vincent | A Record Date with Gene Vincent | 12″ | LP |
| 6/22/21 | Wailers | Tall Cool One | 12″ | LP |
| 6/23/21 | Various Artists | The Lost Starday Records | 12″ | LP |
| 6/23/21 | Flying Saucers | Recorded Live at Picketts Lock | 10″ | EP |
| 6/23/21 | Don Gibson | Am I That Easy to Forget | 12″ | LP |
| 6/24/21 | Prisoners | The Wizermizerdelmelza | 12″ | LP |
| 6/24/21 | Rolling Stones | The Singles Collection | 4×12″ | LP |
| 6/25/21 | Jack Scott | Rare Items | 12″ | LP |
| 6/25/21 | Young Fresh Fellows | Benzedrine Beat | 7″ | EP |
| 6/27/21 | Ruts | Live and Loud | 12″ | LP |
| 6/27/21 | Gants | Gants Again | 12″ | LP |
| 6/27/21 | Red Hot Max and Cats | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/27/21 | Ramones | Rocket To Russia | 12″ | LP |
| 6/27/21 | Brownsville Station | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 6/28/21 | Purple Merkins | Purple Merkin Power | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Pretty Things | Buzz The Jerk | 7″ | EP |
| 6/28/21 | Tom Petty | Don’t Do Me Like That | 2×7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Al Perry | Yesterday Every Day | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Al Perry | Little Bird | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Pearl Schwartz | Self Titled | 7″ | EP |
| 6/28/21 | Graham Parker | Hold Back the Night | 7″ | EP |
| 6/28/21 | Nomads | (I’m) Out of It | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Nervous Eaters | Just Head | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Juice Newton | Queen of Hearts | 7″ | Single |
| 6/28/21 | Mystic Eyes | I Can’t Wait To Hold You | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Remains | Don’t Tell Me The Truth | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Records | Self Titled | 7″ | EP |
| 6/29/21 | Marty Robbins | Singing The Blues | 7″ | EP |
| 6/29/21 | Romantics | Tell It to Carrie | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Saints | Let’s Pretend | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Saints | Temple of the Lord | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Shambles | Innocence Becomes You | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Shonen Knife/Shudder to Think | Split Single | 7″ | Single |
| 6/29/21 | Ron Silva and the Monarchs | Self Titled | 7″ | EP |
| 6/30/21 | Skid Roper | Lydia’s Cafe | 12″ | LP |
| 6/30/21 | Jimmy Ruffin | Groove Governor | 12″ | LP |
| 6/30/21 | Various Artists | The 2nd Belgian 6ts Boom | 12″ | LP |
| 6/30/21 | Arthur Conley | More Sweet Soul | 12″ | LP |
July
| 7/5/21 | Various Artists | Back From The Grave Volume 2 | 12″ | LP |
| 7/5/21 | Guitar Wolf | Loverock | 12″ | LP |
| 7/6/21 | Johnny Bond | Sick Sober and Sorry | 12″ | LP |
| 7/7/21 | Des Romweber Duo | Images 13 | 12″ | LP |
| 7/9/21 | Various Artists | Fort Worth Scene Volume 1 | 12″ | LP |
| 7/10/21 | Various Artists | Crazy, Batty and Gone | 12″ | LP |
| 7/11/21 | Various Artists | K-Tel Country superstars | 12″ | LP |
| 7/11/21 | Various Artists | Dream Babes: Girls and Girl Groups of the Sixties | 12″ | LP |
| 7/14/21 | Suzi Quatro | Can The Can | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Johnny Thunders | Critics Choice | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Trembles | Stupid Fool | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Trash Brats | Rocket to Heaven | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Tudors | Tied up With Lew Cool | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Vibrators | Judy Says Knock You In The Head | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Larry Williams | Dizzy Miss Lizzy | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Wolfmen | Wishy Washy Woman | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Woggles/Goggle A | Split Single | 7″ | Single |
| 7/14/21 | Witchdoctors | Going To A Graveyard | 7″ | Single |
| 7/15/21 | Supersuckers | Born With A Tail | 7″ | Single |
| 7/15/21 | Supersuckers | Hell City Hell | 7″ | Single |
| 7/16/21 | Spizzenergi | Where’s Captain Kirk | 7″ | Single |
| 7/16/21 | Henry Badkowski | My Face | 7″ | Single |
| 7/16/21 | Banana Erectors | You Got that Uh Huh | 7″ | Single |
| 7/17/21 | Thee Mighty Caesars | Beware The Ides of March | 12″ | LP |
| 7/17/21 | Dwight Twilley | Scuba Diver | 12″ | LP |
| 7/18/21 | Treeberrys | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 7/18/21 | Flamin’ Groovies | Can’t explain | 7″ | Single |
| 7/18/21 | Pat Benetar | Hit Me With Your best Shot | 7″ | Single |
| 7/18/21 | Barbarellas | Dying Inside | 7″ | Single |
| 7/18/21 | Banana Splits | Doin’ The Banana Split | 7″ | EP |
| 7/18/21 | Bananarama | Venus | 7″ | Single |
| 7/19/21 | Sam (The Sham) | Hard and Heavy | 12″ | LP |
| 7/19/21 | Paragons and the Jesters | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 7/19/21 | Joe Turner | Best of Joe Turner | 12″ | LP |
| 7/19/21 | Fire Department | Last One Here | 7″ | Single |
| 7/19/21 | Fastbacks and Gas Huffer | Split Single | 7″ | Single |
| 7/19/21 | Eurhythmics | Would I Lie To You | 7″ | Single |
| 7/19/21 | Elvis | Jailhouse Rock | 7″ | EP |
| 7/20/21 | Saints | Eternally Yours | 12″ | LP |
| 7/20/21 | Thee Fourgiven | It Ain’t Pretty Down Here | 12″ | LP |
| 7/20/21 | Tommy Tutone | Self Titled | 12″ | LP |
| 7/21/21 | Rusty York | Sings Like Crazy | 12″ | LP |
| 7/21/21 | Dwight Yoakam | Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. | 12″ | LP |
| 7/21/21 | Zeros | Don’t Push Me Around | 12″ | LP |
| 7/21/21 | Zantees | Self Titled | 12″ | EP |
| 7/22/21 | X | Alphabetland | 12″ | LP |
| 7/22/21 | Kim Wilde | Kids in America | 12″ | LP |
| 7/22/21 | Freddy Cannon | Action | 7″ | Single |
| 7/22/21 | Porter Waggoner | Soul of a Convict | 12″ | LP |
| 7/22/21 | Ike and Tina Turner | What You Hear Is What You Get | 7″ | EP |
| 7/22/21 | Bryan Ferry | You go To My head | 7″ | Single |
| 7/22/21 | Carl Perkins | One Of These Days | 7″ | Single |
| 7/23/21 | Nips and Nipple Erectors | Bops, Babes, Booze ‘n Bovver | 12″ | LP |
| 7/24/21 | Carl Perkins | Blue Suede Shoes | 12″ | LP |
| 7/24/21 | Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers | Scientific Bombs away | 12″ | LP |
| 7/26/21 | Cynics | Living is The Best Revenge | 12″ | LP |
| 7/26/21 | Cynics | Rock ‘N Roll | 12″ | LP |
| 7/26/21 | Cynics | Learn To Lose | 12″ | LP |
| 7/27/21 | Kurt Baker | Brand new Beat | 12″ | LP |
| 7/27/21 | Johnny Cash | Cash | 12″ | LP |
| 7/27/21 | Wayne Cochran | Wayne Cochran! | 12″ | LP |
| 7/28/21 | Guitar Wolf | UFO Romantic | 12″ | LP |
| 7/29/21 | ZZ Top | Degüello | 12″ | LP |
| 7/29/21 | ZZ Top | Eliminator | 12″ | LP |
| 7/29/21 | Thee Mighty Caesars | English Punk Rock Explosion | 12″ | LP |
| 7/29/21 | Ernest Tubb | Greatest Hits | 12″: | LP |
| 7/30/21 | Various Artists | Waves | 12″ | LP |
| 7/30/21 | Revillos | Rev It Up | 12″ | LP |
| 7/30/21 | Safety Last | Struck By Love | 12″ | LP |
| 7/30/21 | Rivieras | Best of the Rivieras | 12″ | LP |
| 7/31/21 | Small Faces | History of the Small Faces | 12″ | LP |
| 7/31/21 | Supersuckers | La Mano Cornuda | 12″ | LP |
| 7/31/21 | Buck Owens | I Wouldn’t Live in New York City | 12″ | LP |